Introduction:
To help all Montgomery County, Ohio residents achieve their best health outcomes, Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County actively promotes policies, creates systems, and provides services, that enable residents to live a healthy life.

Our workforce of nearly 270 individuals is dedicated to preventing the spread of disease, promoting healthy lifestyles, and protecting the environment. We encourage you to explore this site to learn more about how Public Health is helping to keep our community healthy, safe, and thriving.

About Public Health

To help all Montgomery County, Ohio residents achieve their best health outcomes, Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County actively promotes policies, creates systems, and provides services, that enable residents to live a healthy life.

Our workforce of nearly 270 individuals is dedicated to preventing the spread of disease, promoting healthy lifestyles, and protecting the environment. We encourage you to explore this site to learn more about how Public Health is helping to keep our community healthy, safe, and thriving.

Mission

Improve the quality of life in our community by achieving the goals of public health: prevention, promotion, and protection.

Vision

Montgomery County is a healthy, safe, and thriving community.

Guiding Principles

Our guiding principles represent what we collectively believe in, provide the basis for decision-making, and guide our actions as public servants.

Centered on Community

We focus on addressing community needs and ensuring population health.
Committed to Health Equity

We strive to create opportunities for all individuals to achieve their full health potential.
Collaborating for Impact

We work together with our community to improve population health.
Operating with Accountability

We are accountable to those we serve and to one another.
Based on Evidence

We implement and promote strategies that are based on science and best practice

Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County is made up of a diverse workforce that seek to promote healthy lifestyles, prevent the spread of disease and protect the environment that we live in.

Through our services, we:

Prevent the spread of disease.
Protect against health threats in air, food and water.
Promote healthy behaviors.
Reach out to vulnerable populations, linking or providing direct services.
Mobilize community action through partnerships.
Prepare for and respond to public health emergencies.
Serve as a public health information resource.

Public Health’s approximately $40 million budget supports a workforce of nearly 300 individuals representing over 50 programs who are dedicated to helping to keep Montgomery County residents healthy, safe and thriving.

As one of the largest health departments in the State of Ohio it maintains 5 offices that provide services to the community. Those offices are Administration, Environmental Health, Health Promotion, Health Services and the Office of the Health Commissioner.

There are 8 physical locations that house Public Health programs with its headquarters located in the historic Reibold Building in downtown, Dayton, Ohio.

History of Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County

Public Health in Dayton began in 1867 when the City of Dayton passed an ordinance establishing the Board of Health. In 1969 the City of Dayton Health District merged with the Montgomery County Health District to form the Combined Health District of Montgomery County. And finally, in 2012 the Montgomery County Combined Health District was renamed Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County.

Read the full story in the pdf February 1998 edition of Dayton Medicine: The Journal of the Montgomery County Medical Society (216 KB) .